"The apartment was in need of a facelift and Gilbert stayed out of it," said Ms. Gottfried, who did keep her husband's most elemental need in mind: a comfortable couch for watching television.
When Ms. Gottfried's high school friend Clifford Bailey, an artist, had a show in New York, she and Mr. Gottfried were in attendance. Gilbert and I fell in love with the Groucho painting and Cliff gave it to us as a gift.
A devotee of horror films, Mr. Gottfried has a quartet of life masks that were used by makeup artists to create the scary visages of, clockwise from top left, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Al Pacino and Lon Chaney Jr. In the foreground: a model of Iago, the parrot Mr. Gottfried voiced in the animated movie Aladdin.
"The first thing I do when I go into a hotel room is steal the soap and toothpaste," said Mr. Gottfried, who's clearly been at it for years. "But I don't take towels."
Ms. Gottfried waited to decorate until the children were past the toddler stage, when "they destroy everything,"she said.

"The apartment was in need of a facelift and Gilbert stayed out of it," said Ms. Gottfried, who did keep her husband's most elemental need in mind: a comfortable couch for watching television.
When Ms. Gottfried's high school friend Clifford Bailey, an artist, had a show in New York, she and Mr. Gottfried were in attendance. Gilbert and I fell in love with the Groucho painting and Cliff gave it to us as a gift.
A devotee of horror films, Mr. Gottfried has a quartet of life masks that were used by makeup artists to create the scary visages of, clockwise from top left, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Al Pacino and Lon Chaney Jr. In the foreground: a model of Iago, the parrot Mr. Gottfried voiced in the animated movie Aladdin.
"The first thing I do when I go into a hotel room is steal the soap and toothpaste," said Mr. Gottfried, who's clearly been at it for years. "But I don't take towels."
Ms. Gottfried waited to decorate until the children were past the toddler stage, when "they destroy everything,"she said.

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I saw perform bout a year ago- he will take pics with u after the show. he is a very small thin guy, maybe 125 lbs.